Field Service Regulations, Volume II, Operations 1929

This volume of the Field Service Regulations is the planned British Army doctrine and tactics for operations. It is their policy document for war. It includes chapters on armed forces, their command and the principles of war, fighting troops and their characteristics and armament, strategical preliminaries to joining battle, battle, information, protection, the attack, the defence, night operations, warfare in undeveloped and semi-civilised countries, movements by sea, land and air, orders, instructions, reports and messages, intercommunication and a range of appendices.